People with disabilities who are building success at work and employers who gave them opportunities won recognition from the state of Alabama on Friday. Gov. Kay Ivey presented annual awards at a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman with a teal jacket and green scarf smiling. Victoria DeLano (above) advocated for people with disabilities at the Office ...

Rep. Adline Clarke, D-Mobile, speaks during a debate in the Alabama House of Representatives on Feb. 12, 2025 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. Clarke has pre-filed a bill for the 2026 ...

The flurry of text messages came late one afternoon in 2021. An aide at Discovery Middle School told Kristi Krueger that her daughter was in trouble. “They just put her in the quiet room,” one text ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama children with physical disabilities are being unnecessarily institutionalized in nursing homes, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, warning it would file suit ...

Alabama children with physical disabilities are being unnecessarily institutionalized in nursing homes, the U.S. Justice Department said last week, warning it would file suit against the state unless ...

Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in children, and lifelong disability in adults. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in 345 people in the United States has cerebral ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution.

Editor's Note: Shayla Mitchell is the election protection organizer for the ACLU of Alabama. She works every day to ensure Alabamians can access the polls freely, safely, and fairly. Her motto is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman in a gray jacket and gray scarf speaking into a microphone mounted to a podium Rep. Adline Clarke, D-Mobile, speaks during ...